perlquestion
anev
I'm a perl newbie and have a question for you perlmonks...
I have a particular URL, and I need to find out if the content for that URL is available on the hosting server.
I would use the Ping module, but I read in the Perl Cookbook that "It's better to think of a ping as testing whether a machine is reachable, rather than whether the machine is doing its job."
So it will only tell me if the server is there, but won't let me know if I can access the content for that URL (i.e. is the site up and running? or is it down?).
Is there something like Ping that I could use to find out this information?
Thanks in advance!
Anev